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St. Mary’s student biweekly • Volume 76, No. 4 March 25,1991 • St. Mary's City, MD 20686
Mandatory fees to be raised,
Health Center reorganized
Students offer input in Health center budget changes
By Phil March
staff writer
The Health Center staff is expected
to be scaled back to one full-time
nurse practitioner, a part-time physi­cian’s
assistant and a clerical support
position said President Edward T.
Lewis and Executive Vice-President
for Administration John Underwood
at an open Student Government
Association (SGA) meeting last
Wednesday.
Underwood and Lewis attended
the meeting in order to collect stu­dent
input regarding the revamping
of St.Mary’s Health Center and other
budget-cutting changes expected to
be implemented across the campus
starting next semester. Lewis said
that students’ mandatory fees, which
include the Health Center fee are
expected to increase $ 100 or slightly
more next semester.
The Health Center reorganization,
which was the primary topic of con­versation
for the approximately 35
Student telephone
directory delayed
By Aaron Garnett
editor-in-chief
The release of this semester’s stu­dent
telephone directory was delayed
due to budget problems as well as a
failed attempt to combine the student
and faculty/staff directories into one
volume. The directory, normally
distributed to students during the first
two or three weeks of each semester,
was released just last week, and only
200 copies were distributed.
According to Bill Caplins, Direc­tor
of Information Processing, who
compiles the information for both the
student directory and the faculty/staff
directory, the college has interest in
combining both directories into a
single volume. The move would
eliminate the cost of printing fac­ulty
telephone numbers in both
directories, but administrators are
unsure how to overcome the prob­lem
of timing; faculty and staff
offices are established very early
in the year, while student rooms
and telephone numbers do not sta­bilize
until the second or third week
of the semester after room changes
are made. This problem is still
unsolved, so it was impossible to
combine the directories this se­mester.
The student directories
were subsequently put on hold until
a short time ago when Caplins ad-
See DIRECTORY, Page 3
students in attendance, is the most
controversial and least finalized of
the administration’s proposed cut­backs.
Presently, the center is staffed by
four nurses and a part-time physi­cian’s
assistant. Under current plans,
all four nurses will be released. They
will be replaced by a nurse practitio­ner,
whose expanded functions in­clude
routine diagnoses, minor medi­cal
procedures such as allergy injec­tions
and assigning prescriptions, none
of which nurses are allowed to do.
Also added will be a clerical sup­port
position. At the meeting, stu­dents
expressed interest in having
this secretarial-type position be filled
by a registered nurse. Lewis pointed
out the added expense saying aregis-tered
nurse would be paid nearly twice
as much as aregular secretary. It also
is unclear to what extent the Health
Center will be able to offer other
services such as free prescriptions.
Students mandatory fees will also
be raised $100 or slightly more de­pending
on the cost of the Health
Center plan eventually implemented.
Next semester, for the first time,
students’ mandatory fees will not be
broken down into specifics on their
bills. A portion of these funds are
sequestered, such as the student ac­tivities
fee and the lecture and fine
arts fee, but the majority of the fee,
including the Health Center fee, is
fluid and applied where needed. The
fee increase will raise an additional
$120,000.
See BUDGET, Page 3
Campus bike theft increasing
Students advised to lock bicycles more securely
By Phil March
staff writer
Twelve bicycles have been stolen
this semester by what Public Safety
Director Bill Barker feels may be an
organized bike theft ring.
“Some of them have been taken
right from the bike rooms in the dorms,”
says Barker, “I’d say its somebody
here who has an outlet somewhere.”
Nine of the stolen bikes were of the
recently popular and very expensive
off-road, mountain bike style.
Five of the missing bikes were
later recovered. Two were found by
See BIKE, page 3
INSIDE
page 2 - Tiefephc^e tie-ups | | | 1
page 4 - Letters to the Ed1to§|j|
page S - Squeezing citrus week;
page 8 - Doors movie reviewi l l
.................................... PHOTO BY KRISTA GRUHL Public Safety recommends locking bikes to loop racks.
Students John Worley, Kevin Patrick, Walt Bartas, Mark
Koscielniak, and Sean Gowan rehearse a scene from As Is.
"As Is"performance
followed by AIDS
panel discussion
By Aaron Garnett
editor-in-chief
A panel discussion on the sub­ject
of Acquired Immune Defi­ciency
Syndrome (AIDS) was held
on Friday, March 1 in Montgom­ery
Hall following a performance
of As Is. All proceeds from the
evening’s performance went to the
Whitman Walker Clinic, a non­profit
provider of AIDS services in
the D.C. metropolitan area.
The panel was chaired by St.
Mary’s College Professor John
Laughton and the panelists were
Emily Guy of St. Mary’s College
Health Services; Joe Izzo, a Clini­cal
Psychologist and Deputy
Administrator for Program Devel­opment
at the Whitman Walker
Clinic; and Ted Kirk, a Psychia­trist
who has tested HIV-positive
and counsels other individuals who
are HIV-positive.
An individual who has tested
HIV-positive has, in their blood­stream,
antibodies to the HIV vi­rus,
thus a very high likelihood of
actually being infected with the
HTV virus. As a pamphlet distrib­uted
by the Whitman Walker Clinic
states, “Studies show that about
50% of the people who test posi­tive
for HTV develop AIDS-related
symptoms within 8 or ten years.”
The panelists each responded to
the way the disease of AIDS was
represented in the play, then held a
question and answer session with
the audience. Izzo pointed out how
AIDS prevention has changed since
the disease was discovered in the
early eighties. Previously, certain
groups of people were classified as
risk groups, eachhaving ahighrisk
of being exposed to the HTV virus.
These risk groups included homo­sexual
men, intravenous drug us­ers,
and recipients of blood trans­fusions.
A better understanding of how
See AIDS, Page 3
PHOTO BY KRISTA GRUHL

St. Mary’s student biweekly • Volume 76, No. 4 March 25,1991 • St. Mary's City, MD 20686
Mandatory fees to be raised,
Health Center reorganized
Students offer input in Health center budget changes
By Phil March
staff writer
The Health Center staff is expected
to be scaled back to one full-time
nurse practitioner, a part-time physi­cian’s
assistant and a clerical support
position said President Edward T.
Lewis and Executive Vice-President
for Administration John Underwood
at an open Student Government
Association (SGA) meeting last
Wednesday.
Underwood and Lewis attended
the meeting in order to collect stu­dent
input regarding the revamping
of St.Mary’s Health Center and other
budget-cutting changes expected to
be implemented across the campus
starting next semester. Lewis said
that students’ mandatory fees, which
include the Health Center fee are
expected to increase $ 100 or slightly
more next semester.
The Health Center reorganization,
which was the primary topic of con­versation
for the approximately 35
Student telephone
directory delayed
By Aaron Garnett
editor-in-chief
The release of this semester’s stu­dent
telephone directory was delayed
due to budget problems as well as a
failed attempt to combine the student
and faculty/staff directories into one
volume. The directory, normally
distributed to students during the first
two or three weeks of each semester,
was released just last week, and only
200 copies were distributed.
According to Bill Caplins, Direc­tor
of Information Processing, who
compiles the information for both the
student directory and the faculty/staff
directory, the college has interest in
combining both directories into a
single volume. The move would
eliminate the cost of printing fac­ulty
telephone numbers in both
directories, but administrators are
unsure how to overcome the prob­lem
of timing; faculty and staff
offices are established very early
in the year, while student rooms
and telephone numbers do not sta­bilize
until the second or third week
of the semester after room changes
are made. This problem is still
unsolved, so it was impossible to
combine the directories this se­mester.
The student directories
were subsequently put on hold until
a short time ago when Caplins ad-
See DIRECTORY, Page 3
students in attendance, is the most
controversial and least finalized of
the administration’s proposed cut­backs.
Presently, the center is staffed by
four nurses and a part-time physi­cian’s
assistant. Under current plans,
all four nurses will be released. They
will be replaced by a nurse practitio­ner,
whose expanded functions in­clude
routine diagnoses, minor medi­cal
procedures such as allergy injec­tions
and assigning prescriptions, none
of which nurses are allowed to do.
Also added will be a clerical sup­port
position. At the meeting, stu­dents
expressed interest in having
this secretarial-type position be filled
by a registered nurse. Lewis pointed
out the added expense saying aregis-tered
nurse would be paid nearly twice
as much as aregular secretary. It also
is unclear to what extent the Health
Center will be able to offer other
services such as free prescriptions.
Students mandatory fees will also
be raised $100 or slightly more de­pending
on the cost of the Health
Center plan eventually implemented.
Next semester, for the first time,
students’ mandatory fees will not be
broken down into specifics on their
bills. A portion of these funds are
sequestered, such as the student ac­tivities
fee and the lecture and fine
arts fee, but the majority of the fee,
including the Health Center fee, is
fluid and applied where needed. The
fee increase will raise an additional
$120,000.
See BUDGET, Page 3
Campus bike theft increasing
Students advised to lock bicycles more securely
By Phil March
staff writer
Twelve bicycles have been stolen
this semester by what Public Safety
Director Bill Barker feels may be an
organized bike theft ring.
“Some of them have been taken
right from the bike rooms in the dorms,”
says Barker, “I’d say its somebody
here who has an outlet somewhere.”
Nine of the stolen bikes were of the
recently popular and very expensive
off-road, mountain bike style.
Five of the missing bikes were
later recovered. Two were found by
See BIKE, page 3
INSIDE
page 2 - Tiefephc^e tie-ups | | | 1
page 4 - Letters to the Ed1to§|j|
page S - Squeezing citrus week;
page 8 - Doors movie reviewi l l
.................................... PHOTO BY KRISTA GRUHL Public Safety recommends locking bikes to loop racks.
Students John Worley, Kevin Patrick, Walt Bartas, Mark
Koscielniak, and Sean Gowan rehearse a scene from As Is.
"As Is"performance
followed by AIDS
panel discussion
By Aaron Garnett
editor-in-chief
A panel discussion on the sub­ject
of Acquired Immune Defi­ciency
Syndrome (AIDS) was held
on Friday, March 1 in Montgom­ery
Hall following a performance
of As Is. All proceeds from the
evening’s performance went to the
Whitman Walker Clinic, a non­profit
provider of AIDS services in
the D.C. metropolitan area.
The panel was chaired by St.
Mary’s College Professor John
Laughton and the panelists were
Emily Guy of St. Mary’s College
Health Services; Joe Izzo, a Clini­cal
Psychologist and Deputy
Administrator for Program Devel­opment
at the Whitman Walker
Clinic; and Ted Kirk, a Psychia­trist
who has tested HIV-positive
and counsels other individuals who
are HIV-positive.
An individual who has tested
HIV-positive has, in their blood­stream,
antibodies to the HIV vi­rus,
thus a very high likelihood of
actually being infected with the
HTV virus. As a pamphlet distrib­uted
by the Whitman Walker Clinic
states, “Studies show that about
50% of the people who test posi­tive
for HTV develop AIDS-related
symptoms within 8 or ten years.”
The panelists each responded to
the way the disease of AIDS was
represented in the play, then held a
question and answer session with
the audience. Izzo pointed out how
AIDS prevention has changed since
the disease was discovered in the
early eighties. Previously, certain
groups of people were classified as
risk groups, eachhaving ahighrisk
of being exposed to the HTV virus.
These risk groups included homo­sexual
men, intravenous drug us­ers,
and recipients of blood trans­fusions.
A better understanding of how
See AIDS, Page 3
PHOTO BY KRISTA GRUHL